Jews were the top targets for hate crimes in New York state last year, followed by blacks, gay men and Hispanics, according to a report by the state Department of Criminal Justice Services.
The report analyzed crime data submitted to the state by police agencies from all 62 counties. The results of the state’s number-crunching are distilled in an eight-page report made public last week.
The report found that police agencies identified 596 hate crimes throughout New York last year. Jews were targets 36 percent of the time, with blacks targeted 25 percent of the time, gay men, 11 percent, and Hispanics, 4 percent.
The New York City borough of Brooklyn recorded the most incidents, followed by Nassau County on Long Island, the borough of Manhattan and Suffolk County, also on Long Island.
The state’s report points out that there were 64 convictions from the hate-crimes incidents recorded last year, and of those, “only 10 were convicted of a hate-crime charge.”
A DCJS spokeswoman, Janine Kava, cautioned against drawing any sweeping conclusions about the meaning of the conviction statistic.
“It would really be inappropriate to speculate on that, given that prosecution is a local function,” Kava said Tuesday. “Each case could have had its own fact pattern, its own reasons for the disposition.”
we wouldnt attract this
what’s scary is that most of these hate crimes against Jews in CH are not reported as hate crimes!!
that was really oblivious
interesting
but don’t worry we are not recognized as a minority so even if we are the biggest victims it doesn’t matter